I want to use my 2014 Mac Pro for 8-panadaptor 6700 duty. I plan a long, interesting relationship with multi-band VHF/UHF contest simultaneous band monitoring and digital voice + JT-modes experimentation.
I've read dozens of threads saying Boot Camp is the only way and/or that Parallels or Fusion are just the ticket. I'm thoroughly confused.
I hate what happens to Windows machines after a few ill-advised (only in retrospect) downloads like an open-source Office substitute. On OSX, malware is 15-20 dB less problematic. Boot Camp forces all web browsing and document reading into the Windows environment. Theoretically, a virtual machine environment could isolate all non-Flex action in OSX to general benefit.
My Mac is outfitted thus:
I've read dozens of threads saying Boot Camp is the only way and/or that Parallels or Fusion are just the ticket. I'm thoroughly confused.
I hate what happens to Windows machines after a few ill-advised (only in retrospect) downloads like an open-source Office substitute. On OSX, malware is 15-20 dB less problematic. Boot Camp forces all web browsing and document reading into the Windows environment. Theoretically, a virtual machine environment could isolate all non-Flex action in OSX to general benefit.
My Mac is outfitted thus:
3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
16GB (4x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
256GB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
Which path should I take?????